As of today, we've been married 32 years. 28 of them happily. Fortunately the other 4 have been spread out over the 32 years. It hasn't always been easy.
In an article entitled, When Marriage is Dying, Peter Leithart of Touchstone magazine contends that marriage is dying. It has always been about dying. Dying to your family of origin. Dying to being single. Dying to old ways of doing things and old plans that included only ourselves. That is the challenge of marriage.
And that is where the 4 tough years come in. It was in those seasons that one or the other of us (or both) refused to die to ourselves. It wasn't pretty, but by God's grace we got through it to better seasons where we got our eyes off ourselves and onto Christ where they belong.
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